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This is the place to post your motor vehicle pics... Your car, a funny one you may have seen, or pics related thereto. Maybe if we all play nice and the mods think it's a good idea, they'll even sticky this thread.

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Love it!!!
Definitely welcome all contributions, please bring 'em folks!!!!!.......but my own personal uptight rule: If I didn't take the shot (or star in it), I won't post it.
This one barely qualifies.......I didn't take this photograph, but I did take this picture of the original photograph, in a friend's collection; In his trophy case. (so taken was I by the original image).

Am extremely blessed to have done a lot of seat time in a Jaguar XK-SS; If I had to pick one car to own for a lifetime, it would likely be a D-type Jaguar. They won Les Mans three years in a row, and when it became obvious four years in a row wasn't likely, Jaguar took the remaining,(Aprox 20 to 30 cars) unfinished D-type racers, put a few nominal road car fittings on them, and sold them as XK-SS street cars / club racers. There was a factory fire, destroying several chassis, book keeping and records were spotty; Who truly knows how many were ultimately released into the wild? (Despite what my beloved Wikipedia says) A fascinating story from a cooler age gone by.
Absolutely ferocious muther' effers, those cars; Technically very interesting, and (in full race trim with long gears), they were 170+ MPH machines. Built by men and women who developed their skills, hand fabricating aircraft during the (recent) "unpleasantness"; Took their talents and knowledge elsewhere when no longer needed for wartime production. And D types were as pretty as could be, dripping in asymmetry, just like the most beautiful women often are. (Falls to knees and weeps emoji)

Anyhooooo. I love this shot; (The original) signed by driver Ron Flockhart........"You blokes don't know a drift when you see one." Old school gangster, yo.